Lisa Whelchel Quotes

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

It's important to just kind of get away from your sport until you miss it. It's about taking time to enjoy other aspects of life or learn new things. It helps rejuvenate.

I think you have to go and fill your cup and do so diversely; otherwise, then you burn out.

Imagine a world where mothers take as good care of themselves as they do their children and a world where mothers are so supported they're able to do that. That's the world we all need to create because our children, families, and communities are depending on us.

It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever, without recreation may suit spirits emancipated from this 'heavy clay', but while we are in this tabernacle, we must every now and then cry halt, and serve the Lord by holy inaction and consecrated leisure. Let no tender conscience doubt the lawfulness of going out of harness for a while

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.

During the week, I'm really focused on writing and output. Sunday is a day when I really try not to write at all.

Do whatever rejuvenates you. It might be a cooking class, cocktails with the girls, or just private time with the hubby. We all have our moments where we run out of steam because we've given everything we've got to everyone else. Whoever decided that was a good thing? It's not. Everyone needs to refuel.

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

Doing regular things and not just working all the time, as much as I love the work I do, it's nice to take a break and really have perspective on things and go on road trips or go hiking or travel. It keeps me alive and curious.

Just because you are a mom doesn't mean whoever you were before is gone. You can bring it back.

Sometimes it helps to take a couple days off, as weird as that sounds. Every once in a while, I could just shoot so many shots. You can get so, like, intense with it all. It's like in life, right? We're all created for a sabbath day or for a day of rest. You sometimes need that in shooting, too.

Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.

After a tough day, I go eat some steak and potatoes and take a shower.

You need a balance in life. You just cannot be all the time on an adrenalin peak. You need to recharge.

When it's time to recharge, I don't feel guilty about it.

The times you have off are equally as important as the times you're working. You need to rebuild, fill up again.

The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.